Trilegal is a prominent full-service firm with a sizeable team of seasoned dispute resolution experts. The firm excels in all traditional corporate areas but has particular disputes strengths in competition, complex commercial litigation, international arbitration, insolvency, tax, and white-collar crime. The team has a track record covering a broad spectrum of litigations across all forums, including the Supreme Court, various High Courts, lower courts, tribunals, and other regulatory and quasi-judicial commissions. A substantial portion of the firm’s caseload has a major international component – for instance, sensitive M&A-related disputes and complex commercial transactions. The firm consistently features in extremely complex high-stake disputes and multi-jurisdictional mandates.
Trilegal has deep and long-standing relationships with a large network of top-tier foreign law firms. With its place locked in among the best global disputes firms, the international arbitration team is a go-to choice for various international and domestic clients, including the ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India, Zee Entertainment Enterprises, Mitsui and Co, Wipro Enterprises, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Resilient Innovations, Goldman Sachs and GMR.
Dispute resolution head and partner Shankh Sengupta leads a team of disputes-focused partners that includes Jafar Alam, Ashish Bhan, Nitesh Jain, Tine Abraham, Pallav Shukla, Siddharth Ranade, and Anuj Berry. Other key figures are partners with practice specialities that overlap with the disputes group, such as competition specialist Nisha Kaur Uberoi, white-collar crimes investigation specialist Kunal Gupta and tax specialist Samsuddha Majumder. Last year, the firm welcomed disputes partners Payel Chatterjee and Milanka Chaudhury to bolster the team, as well as counsels Ashly Cherian and Naina Pankaj Dubey. Infrastructure and aviation litigation specialist Chaudhury and Dubey joined from Link Legal.
The firm recently advised Resilient Innovations in a recovery suit against its former managing director for misappropriated amounts and for compensation for loss of goodwill, reputation and brand value suffered by the company and other connected suits and proceedings involving issues of corporate defamation. This is the first proceeding in India where a unicorn start-up has initiated proceedings against an ex-founder and CEO to uphold corporate governance norms and recover the funds misappropriated.
Client feedback
“Trilegal is always spot on with their advice and invariably seem to know things better than other law firms.” – Banking and financial services
“Prompt deliverables. Great grasp on matters and research skills.” – Bankruptcy
“It provided pragmatic and actionable advice on a messy commercial dispute in a jurisdiction that favours homegrown players.” – Commercial and transactions
“Recommended for their proactiveness and subject matter expertise.” – Competition/antitrust
“They are results-oriented. An efficient team of lawyers providing inter-departmental advisory for devising litigation strategy.” – Energy
“Trilegal is a full-service law firm. They excel in every assignment they have taken up, be it corporate, regulatory advisory or disputes. I primarily work with the disputes team, and they have done that work extremely well.” – Energy
“Very professional, quick and clear.” – Government and regulatory
“They perform very well with laying out potential risks and potential actions we can take within a pressing timeline.” – International arbitration
“We saw a very good team working on multiple tasks in parallel, enabling efficient pleadings and responses during the hearing of the SIAC arbitration process.” – International arbitration
Tine Abraham
“Excellent understanding of the matter from the legal as well as the business point of view.”
“Extremely efficient with in-depth knowledge of the sector, along with the ability to provide innovative strategy for disputes.”
Rajat Jariwal
“Prompt and clear outlook.”
Charandeep Kaur
“She is always very keen to provide appropriate services to us, irrespective of size or nature. She is very attentive and very good at listening to our requests.”
Mohammed Shameer
“Understands every aspect of the dispute and provides valuable legal opinion with facts and references.”
Vishrov Mukherjee
“Vishrov has a great network, which allows him to understand the upcoming regulatory issues and take a considered approach for different parties. Also, given his background, he has great value before different courts, so all appearances and submissions are well considered. He understands the legal and practical aspects of every dispute and gives holistic advice.”
Shruti Rajan
“Very supportive.”
Mohit Rohatgi
“Mohit provided pragmatic and actionable advice regarding a messy commercial dispute in which the counterparty was acting extralegally. He helped us manoeuvre the situation, taking into account local laws and customs.”
Nisha Kaur Uberoi
“Top-notch knowledge of the subject matter and of the client’s business. She is proactive.”
